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Who is the FutureManagementGroup AG and what do they do?


All of us at the FutureManagementGroup AG believe

that you can manage your future. We believe that every

individual and every company can and should see,

understand, and benefit more from the future. We

believe that we have to act with more future savvy in

the here and now, so that our future turns out the way

we want it to.

Good leadership teams must systematically identify and

take advantage of their opportunities in future markets.

They need a good answer to the question "What are we

going to live on?"

We can only manage the future in our heads, because

that is where the future happens. Our world today is the

world we thought up in the past. What we think today,

determines the world of our future.

No one can predict the future. But we can improve what

we know and think of the future – our assumptions,

opportunities, visions, and strategies. Seneca already

knew: "There will be times when we wonder why we

didn't know the obvious."

You can enrich, improve, focus your knowledge of the

future and make it more effective. So that you can

make future smart decisions. That is what we call future

management.

Good future management satisfies existential and

entrepreneurial needs. You are well aligned and more

confident, optimistic, innovative, successful, and

passionate.

Effective future management requires comprehensive

and well structured future knowledge about future

markets and the trends and technologies that drive

them. You need a clear language and effective methods

and tools. And most importantly, you need an

interdisciplinary team with experience and great

passion.

In 1991, we, the FMG, were the first private company in

the German speaking world to specialize in future

management. We apply all our skills and knowledge to

serve the bright future of our clients.

Have a bright future!

Dr. Pero Mićić

Founder, CEO

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Who is the FutureManagementGroup AG and what do they do?

Martin Ruesch

Board

Enno Däneke

Partner

Bernd Hinrichs

Partner

Berthold Müssig

Partner

Gregor Schiffer

Partner

Claudia Schramm

Partner


Who are the Clients of FMG Future Managers?

We work for entrepreneurs and leaders

with passion and foresight.

We work for the leadership teams of mid-size companies and large

corporations in various industries and trades. We also tackle specific topics

for national institutions and organizations such as the Bundeskriminalamt

(the German equivalent of the FBI) and for politicians and administration.

Our clients agree that good and successful leadership requires systematic

future management. Thus far we have worked with clients in 30 countries

on three continents.

Max Schaber, Datagroup AGAngelique Renkhoff-Mücke, Warema AG

Karsten Schmidt, Ravensburger AGDr. Axel Bruder, Renolit AG

Jörg Ziercke, BundeskriminalamtNicolas Luc Villeroy, Villeroy & Boch AG


What Kinds of Goals Can the FMG Help Realize?

Today's markets Future markets

Your company today

SafetyIdentifying dangers and creating a future safe business

InnovationIdentifying and developing opportunities in future markets

ProfitGuiding today's business sectors successfully into the future

PassionMotivating employees for a common future

OrientationIdentifying and understanding coming changes

Our future knowledge,

methodology, and creativity helps

complete entrepreneurial tasks

and achieve goals.

Every individual and every company has to align to future

markets. We all have to continually examine and adjust our

future strategy.

Future management serves to create five strategic effects.

Many decision makers are looking for alignment and

security in a world of fast and complex change.

Innovation is necessary to guarantee our existence. At the

same time, success and profit require clear focus.

Employees want to and need to know about the mission

and vision they commit to and about the fascinating,

desirable, and viable future idea they work for.

Only a clear and future smart future strategy motivates

people to apply themselves passionately and to participate

in and towards a meaningful community.


What Kind of Future Knowledge Does the FMG Provide?

We follow all major trends and technologies

that determine our life and the markets of

the future.

We don't only focus on the well-known megatrends such as urbanization,

mobilization, or shortage of resources. In addition to the 35 great global

trends, we continuously follow about 700 additional trends, technologies,

and themes of the future.

Future knowledge is only useful if it offers tangible advantages in the here

and now. Everything else is entertainment. We understand trends and

technologies as future factors, as the forces driving change on the market.

They determine which business sectors and professions will decline or

even disappear and which ones will grow or emerge. They determine how

we will live and how we will make our living.

It is the very future factors you don’t deal with during daily operations that

may hold major dangers and opportunities.

One of the first steps in our cooperation will provide you with an individual

"map" of future factors that either will be or can be made relevant to you.


Where Does the FMG Draw its Future Knowledge?

We record, analyze, and structure the

future knowledge of visionaries,

revolutionaries, scientists and developers

worldwide.

How does the new make it into the world? How does change arise? How

does the future emerge? The beginning of every development is the idea

or the discovery of a pioneer. He or she speaks and writes about it and

slowly gains supporters and followers among colleagues and among those

who are particularly open to change.

Some time, often years later, visionaries and future researchers find out

about it. They gather what’s new and different and define trends. The

ideas per se mix and mingle with the point of view of those who look at

them. Some offer a serious description of trends. Others invent trends.

We follow the studies, writings, and lectures of selected visionaries and

researchers of the future. We compare their messages and evaluate their

content.

Only those ideas, trends, and technologies that promise success in the

entrepreneurial world end up in our FutureNet, a unique semantic

network of knowledge. This is how we watch the markets of the future for

you.

Elon Musk, Visionary EntrepreneurRay Kurzweil, Technology Visionary

Daniel Kahneman, Behavioral ScientistRodney Brooks, Robotics Pioneer

One of many scientistsMuhammad Yunus, Social Visionary


Is Future Management Important to You?

The only thing you cannot delegate is what we call

future management.

We are pioneers of future management. We

have used this term since the early 1990s.

At the time, the leadership teams of only a

few companies began to deal with the future

intensively, aiming for knowledge that goes

further and wider and reaches deeper than

traditional strategic planning.

Many decision makers find traditional future

research and the related trend research too

imprecise and non-committal.

There is a great gap between

entrepreneurial needs and the results of

traditional future and trend researchers.

Future management closes this gap. In fact,

future management bridges the gap

between future research on the one hand

and strategic company leadership on the

other.

Future management utilizes the results of

future research and makes them effective in

your company via decisions, strategies, and

action plans.

Future management comprises the entirety

of all models, rules, and methods for the

early detection and analysis of future

developments and their practical application

for successful and robust future strategies.

Future management serves to answer our

core questions about the future: What lies in

store for us and what doesn’t? What might

surprise us? What are our opportunities for a

better future? Which visions do we want to

implement? What do we need to do to

achieve this?

Future ResearchStrategic

Management

FutureManagement


Who Belongs to the Team at the FutureManagementGroup AG?

The FutureManagementGroup team

includes individuals from various

disciplines. Businessmen, economists,

and technology experts as well as political

scientists, bankers, psychologists,

educators, studied future researchers,

sinologists, sociologists, literary scholars,

an art historian, and a theologian.

We are all fascinated by future

management. We work in three areas:

analysis and structure of the future,

professional entrepreneurship, and

effective methodology.

We will guide you along the road to your

future and assist you with the analysis of

your future, the development of your

strategic alignment, and its

implementation in your field(s).

We are the future

managers.

Gerhard Seidel Dr. K. Heinzelbecker Prof. Dr. Peter Mettler Achim GärtnerDr. Philipp Reisinger

Martin Ruesch Claudia Schramm Dr. Jörg Blechschmidt Enno Däneke Bernd HinrichsDr. Pero Mićić

Gregor Schiffer Fuád Abuschuscha Matthias Jurgelucks Dr. Tanja Bernsau Julia DieterBerthold Müssig

Stefan Schnack Oliver Eraković Andreas Günther Sarah-Emanuela Leins Dr. Bettina Muratović

Matthias Heitmann

Veronika Hamminger


How Far Does the FMG Network Reach?

We maintain and utilize a

worldwide network of

future experts.

We are founding members of the

Association of Professional Futurists

headquartered in the USA. It is the first

and only association of professional

future experts. The association consists

of about 300 companies and individuals

on all continents.

We have regular contact with numerous

research institutes.

In addition, we are linked with the World

Future Society, the World Futures Studies

Federation, and the Millennium Project of

the United Nations. We are actively

involved on the board of the Department

of Strategic Foresight at the University of

Houston.


How Can the FMG Help Manage Your Future?


What Are the Practical Tasks the FMG Supports?

FMG offers an effective program

of solutions for the goals of future

management.

In our work on hundreds of assignments and projects over

the past 25 years we have identified and analyzed over 90

future management needs.

At some point, these needs will end up on the agenda of

your leadership team and your experts in innovation and

strategy. We have structured these needs into five strategic

effects of future management: alignment, security,

innovation, profit, and motivation.

In the early stages of our cooperation, we will

systematically analyze feasible goals and profits for your

company. You will receive a solution program designed with

your specific goals and needs in mind.

Our solution programs offer consultation, training,

coaching, software, implementation and execution of

innovation and future management processes.

You in today's markets

You in future markets

Program for solutions

Future Scenarios

Developing scenarios and assumptions about future developments

Future Scenarios

Developing a map of trends and technologies

Future Mapping

Making future management more efficient and effective

Future Management Process

Identifying and understanding trends and technologies

Future Radar Workshop

Teaching and training for future management

Future Academy

Future Opportunities

Evaluating opportunities in future markets

Future Business Evaluation

Identifying opportunities in future markets

Future Business Radar

Implementing opportunities in future markets

Future Business Realization

Identifying and selecting search fields

Future Markets Radar

Developing strategies for opportunities in future markets

Future Business Strategy

Future Strategy

Developing future strategy

Future StrategyDevelopment

Determining future market fitness and compatibility

Future Fitness Analysis

Applying future strategy

Future Strategy Execution

Determining today's strategy and position

BusinessAnalysis

Implementing future strategy

Future Strategy Implementation

Passion

Profit

Innovation

Safety

Orientation


How Does the FMG Make its Future Knowledge so Effective?

The FutureNet offers access to the world of

future knowledge. Due to over 700 large

future trends and thousands of projections and

signals, the FutureNet is an enormously

valuable source of knowledge. All FMG

employees contribute and draw from this

foundation.

The FutureNet is a semantic network of

knowledge with artificial intelligence, which at

the same time taps into the potential of

knowledge stored on the Internet and in

external databases. The foundation of

knowledge in the FutureNet and its artificially

intelligent algorithms empower us to

automatically scan the Internet for relevant

future knowledge. The FutureNet is far more

than a database of trends. It automatically

evaluates documents, extracts future

statements on the basis of syntax, grammar,

The FMG FutureNet is the

most comprehensive

semantic network of

knowledge in the world.

semantics, and logic and relates them to trends and

technologies.

The FutureNet also allows you to document your

comprehensive corporate strategy in a logical

system. This means that your vision, your

guidelines, and your goals can be related and

connected to your actual projects, which in turn can

be related and connected to the future assumptions

they are based on, which in turn can be related and

connected to major trends and technologies.

If conditions change, you can identify the effects of

this change on your strategy. This does not work

with Power Point and Excel. Interrelations that have

been considered difficult, if not impossible to

document have been made transparent in the

FutureNet.


How Does the FMG Handle Complexity in Future Thinking?

Many practitioners avoid discussions about the

future, because all too often they result in

vagueness and chaos. The core problem is the

lack of a precise language for the future.

We use the Eltville Model, a consistent

semantic conceptual model, which we have

developed in cooperation with leadership

personnel with phenomenal scientific effort

and success.

The Eltville Model is based on the five basic

human reasons for a look ahead into our

future. That is why despite its necessary

complexity, the model is easy to understand

and follow.

The Eltville Model empowers you and us to

think and communicate the future in precise

and effective terms. Common

misunderstandings can be avoided.

The "Eltville Model" offers

future management with

an overall view, precision,

and effectiveness.

The Eltville Model has proven effective in hundreds

of projects in numerous organizations and

institutions. It offers a clear and reliable structure

for your future strategy. It helps to relate and

connect abstract future research to your

entrepreneurial goals – even to your daily tasks.

The clear definitions of the five different kinds of

futures – the "five futures glasses" – help choose

the right methods and tools for you.

The Eltville Model is neutral with regards to

methodology and allows the application of any

useful method. We use trend-analysis, scenarios,

Delphis, as well as reliable methods and tools for

strategy development and many other methods

from various disciplines.

Pero Mićić's book about the Eltville Model and the

five futures glasses offers further information.

The Eltville Model

The five "futures glasses" The processes The results The book


Why Do We Do All That?

We work towards a future where

you and your employees will live

well.

We all benefit today from the ideas and strategies that

were created in the past. And in the future, we will benefit

from the markets, businesses, and professions we are

beginning to build today.

Two thirds of today's elementary school students will work

in jobs that do not yet exist. And in a few years, your

company will operate in fields you do not yet know.

How will you, your employees and their families make their

living in the future?


What Do FMG Clients Say?


"The scenarios helped form a basis for the important discussion of the fight

against growing cybercrimes and to identify – despite the complexity of the subject – the most relevant and effective developments. The scenario project as an element of strategic early detection contributes to secure the future efficiency of the BKA and to fight crime successfully."

"The Eltville Model is the most effective strategic

method in our company thus far. We have been able to work our way out of a strategic dead end and decide upon our next steps. The solid structure and excellent guidance provided throughout the process was especially valuable." (Dr. Hartmut Wöhler)

"We are very happy with the content of the

strategic processes and their results. Both resonated positively with our leadership personnel. When on the last day of our strategy project, FMG presented our vision, we all had goose bumps. We are determined to implement the strategy and our vision." (Max Schaber, CEO; Dirk Peters, COO)

"The war game has provided a better understanding of

the market and the dynamic of competitiveness. We were able to infer actual measures for our future positioning." (Dr. Gregor Schlechtriem, Section Manager)

"We were impressed by the numberand promise of the future market

concepts. We particularly enjoyed the personal and unobtrusive style of the FMG team. They weren't know-it-alls, but professional future managers." (Frank A. Bergner, Managing Partner)

"We have been working with the FutureManagementGroup AG since 1993. The workshops are a fixed

component of our strategic processes and ensure our high success rate. The FMG prepares, presents, and conducts these workshops with optimal professionalism." (Jürgen Metzler, Manager)

"We are happy with the results of the process, because it has empowered our heterogeneous management team to develop a common vision." (Clemens Maier, Member of the Board)

"Our management team has profited immensely from the convincing methodology. The

decision making process, supported by software and based on mathematical principles, has greatly helped us choose among our strategic projects. Our work with FMG has played a major part in securing a future for our company." (Alfred Hugentobler, Manager PostMail)

"The valuable system of theFMG guarantees great results in the shortest possible time."

(Dr. Georg Oenbrink, Senior VP Innovation)

"We can be reasonably sure that we have not overlooked any relevant technology. The

methodology, which, though complex, was presented in an organized and easily comprehensible fashion, was excellent. The project with the FutureManagementGroup was great fun." (Dr. Jörg Böcking, CTO)

"We have never worked with external consultants who have been this efficient."

(Jürgen Spier, Owner and General Manager)

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"The FMG used convincing methods to identify business models in future

markets. In addition to the excellent presentation, we were particularly impressed by the FMG contribution of meta-opportunities as well as the generator of business-model opportunities." (Marcus Getta, Head ofInnovation Management)

"The project with the FMG resulted in a great number of new future opportunities and a fascinating new vision. This vision aligns us in our

strategies and clearly point us towards opportunities in our business. We are far more focused and motivated to deal with future developments intensively and to look above and beyond." (Angelique Renkhoff-Mücke, Chairwoman of the Board)

"The team of the FutureManagementGroup knows how to get results with practical and efficient

methods even in difficult contexts and with critical group compositions. The cooperation is challenging and fascinating. The portfolio of opportunities has encouraged and motivated us to continue on our way and helped us take the next important steps." (Hedi Ehlen, Managing Director)

"They did excellent work forus. The Sparda Future

Radar developed with the FMG has become a major element in the strategic development of the Spardabanks." (Frank Büttner, Head of Marketing)

"The methodology, the lively presentation, and the work on the development of our strategy brought great results. Therefore they were

enriching and motivating even for a mid-size company that tends to resist consultations." (Dr. Axel Bruder, Board)

"Our successful developmentis in part due to the strategic visions and tangible plans of action, which we developed

with Dr. Pero Mićić and the FutureManagementGroup AG since 2001 in repeated projects and workshops. Practical methods, analytical thoughts and superior project management formed a motivating atmosphere and suited both our needs and our culture as a large family corporation. This explains why all Westfalen AG employees highly respect the FMG." (Günter Rotering, Manager Corporate Sector Gases)

"Everything worked beautifully. The appearance at Raiffeisen, the performance in the

Kuppelsaal, and the presentations. We achieved real excitement and maximum attention. The procedure was successful. FMG has supported us in this this process and contributed greatly to its success." (Ralf Bringmann, Board)

"Every year we are thrilled to see that FMG manages to focus our discussion on essential goals. It is always good to see how they

manage to moderate a number of highly motivated companies so well that real goals can be achieved." (Gabriele und Jürgen Dawo, Managing Partners)

"The FMG project generated many'aha-effects'. We were pleasantly surprised by the positive effects of

the many trends and technologies and by the huge number of identified opportunities. The excellent structure and methodology were particularly valuable, as were the different points of view of the future and the cognitive processes dealing with future developments and specific future projects." (Thomas Lothar Hensel, CEO)

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FutureManagementGroup AG

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quarters: Wallufer Straße 3a

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Main

office: Am Klingenweg 13

65396 Walluf

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